Drawing on findings from their article in Environmental Values 27.3 (June 208), ‘Engaging with Climate Change: Comparing the Cultures of Science and Activism’, Paul Hoggett and Rosemary Randall here examine the emotional challenges faced by climate scientists and activists. Climate change and interconnected crises such as species extinction and resource depletion present humankind with unprecedented … More The emotional impact of working on climate change: the experience of scientists and activists

In today’s blog post, Michelle Mart previews the forthcoming issue of Global Environment, ‘Consuming the World: Eating and Drinking in Culture, History, and the Environment’ (March 2018) co-edited by her and Dan Philippon. The special issue of Global Environment, ‘Consuming the World: Eating and Drinking in Culture, History, and the Environment’, began with what Dan … More Thinking About Food Consumption and Its Impact

In her article in Environmental Values 27.3 (June 2018) entitled ‘Ubuntu and ecofeminism: Value-building with African and womanist voices’, Inge Konik (University of the Free State) engages in a transversal theoretical bridging of the African ethic of ubuntu and materialist ecological feminism. In this blog she summarises the key arguments of her article, which she posits … More Transversal bridging of African and womanist standpoints: Seeking a life-affirming global ethic

In today’s blog Nancy Cushing discusses the contemporary inspiration for her new paper in Environment and History, ‘ “Few Commodities are More Hazardous”: Australian Live Animal Export, 1788–1880’, now available through Ingenta FastTrack. My scholarly interest in Australia’s live animal export trade can be traced back to a very specific event: the 2011 exposure of the … More Hazardous commodities: Australian live animal export from the long nineteenth century to today

On a chilly day here in Europe, local organiser (and now ESEH vice-president) Borna Fuerst-Bjeliš (University of Zagreb) recalls the sunny (if occasionally thundery!) days of last summer’s ESEH conference in Zagreb. This blog post first appeared as the ESEH ‘Notepad) in Environment and History 24.1 (2018) The ninth ESEH biennial conference was held in … More ESEH ZAGREB 2017 CONFERENCE: SOME REFLECTIONS

By Mark Nyandoro Today’s blog trails Mark’s forthcoming article in Environment and History, ‘Citizen-Engagement Circumvented: An Analysis of Liquid-Waste Information/Knowledge, Control and Environmental Policy-Perspectives in Harare, Zimbabwe’, available in uncopyedited form on the WHP website,  presenting a broad and extended literature review for the main paper. There is no scarcity of literature on the history of … More Citizen-Engagement Circumvented: An Analysis of Liquid-Waste Information/Knowledge, Control and Environmental Policy-Perspectives in Zimbabwe. A Literature Review.

By Marco Solimene and Stefania Pontrandolfo. Marco and Stefania are the guest editors of a Special Issue 22.1 (March 2018) of Nomadic Peoples on Roma in Italy. The conceptualisation of spatial mobility in its connection to identity issues has generated a great deal of research among anthropologists working with nomadic populations and studying their relations with … More ‘Gypsies’, ‘Nomads’, ‘Roma’. Categorisation processes of Roma and Sinti in Italy: Reflections on an Upcoming Special Issue of Nomadic Peoples

In today’s blog, Zara Bending offers a preview of and background to her forthcoming article in Environment and History. This will be published via Ingenta FastTrack in January and is currently available in uncopyedited form here. In an upcoming article in Environment and History, I seek to obtain a fuller understanding of the drivers of the … More Horn to be Wild: unpacking humankind’s history of ‘rhinocerotica’ for species conservation

In this blog post, originally published as the ESEH ‘Notepad’ in Environment and History 23.4 (November 2017), Julia Lajus of the National Research University Higher School of Economics, St Petersburg provides some insights into environmental history publications in and about Russia. As well as the items cited, readers might be interested in the recent issue of … More Environmental history in Russia and about Russia

In this post David Larsson Heidenblad makes a case for the emerging field of ‘history of knowledge’, discussing the background and broad theme of his forthcoming article in Environment and History,  ‘Mapping a New History of the Ecological Turn: The Circulation of Environmental Knowledge in Sweden 1967’. The paper is currently open access here in … More Introducing Environmental Historians to the History of Knowledge. The Circulation of Environmental Knowledge in Sweden 1967